GAMES 24-26 | TEXAS STATE SERIES | Jaguar Field | Mobile, Ala.

SERIES SCHEDULE
Game 1: March 18, 2022 | 6 p.m.
Game 2: March 19, 2022 | 3 p.m.
Game 3: March 20, 2022 | 11 a.m.

South Alabama JAGUARS 
NFCA: -- | USA: -- | SBA: -- | D1S: --
RPI: 106
Record: 10-13, 3-0 SBC
Head Coach: Becky Clark (Mobile, '95)

Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .240 / .375 / .303
Team ERA: 2.82

Texas State BOBCATS 
NFCA: -- | USA: -- | SBA: -- | D1S: --
RPI: 41
Record: 13-10, 1-2 SBC
Head Coach: Ricci Woodard (New Mexico State, '91)

Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .287 / .396 / .365
Team ERA: 2.76

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SOUTH ALABAMA JAGUARS    
– South Alabama (10-13, 3-0 SBC) enters the conference home-opening series versus Texas State this weekend after picking up a 3-0 victory over Nicholls State on Wednesday night. 
– The win extended South's win streak to a season-best five games.
– Meredith Keel was 3-for-3 and scored a run, while Stephanie Gonzalez homered to right center and Gabby Stagner drove in a run for the fourth-straight game.
– Jenna Hardy, the reigning SBC Pitcher of the Week, picked up her fourth win of the season as she tossed her second straight shut out and tied a career high with nine strikeouts.
– Since allowing a run with one out in the fourth innining vs. Dartmouth (3/6) at the Tennessee Invitational, Hardy has tossed 22.2 scoreless innings and earned complete-game shutouts in her last two starts.
– The junior holds a 2.46 ERA in 71 innings of work in the circle, while she has struck out 55 and issued just 12 walks this spring.
– Olivia Lackie (5-3) holds a 2.26 earned run average in her 49.2 innings of work. 
– The Walker, La., native has struck out 66 and is holding opponents to a .144 batting average.
– She has gone the distance in four of her six starts and holds three shut outs. 
– In the series opener against UTA, Lackie tossed her second career no-hitter as she struck out 10 and had two or more strikeouts in four of her five innings of work.
– Mackenzie Brasher leads the team at the plate with a .308 batting average and her nine stolen bases are tied for fourth in the conference.
– Brasher also has a team-best four multi-hit games this spring.
– Victoria Ortiz paces the club with 10 extra-base hits and is second with 10 RBI.
– Her six doubles are tied for third-most in the Sun Belt coming into the weekend, and she sit just outside the top 10 of the league in homers.
– All four of her home runs have come in three of her last five outings.
– Ortiz also has a team-high four multi-RBI outings and drove in five in the UTA series.
– Abby Allen extended her reached base safely streak to 19 games on Wednesday night, which is tied for ninth-longest streak in program history. 
– Allen and leads the team and ranks third in the league with 16 walks, 14 of which have come during the stretch.
– Allen also ranks ninth in the SBC in runs scored with 16.
– Like Hardy, Stagner earned conference player of the week honors on Tuesday after hitting a pair of grand slams and driving in nine runs in the UTA series.
– Over the course of its five-game win streak, South has batted .313 as a team with five players batting .357 or better.
– Belle Wolfenden saw her six-game hit streak come to an end against Nicholls, but over her last five outings, the senior infielder is batting a blistering .538.
– Both Keel and Brasher are batting .462 during that stretch with Stagner (.417) and Caroline Nichols (357) close behind.

SUN BELT HOME OPENING SERIES HISTORY
– South Alabama holds a 11-4 record in its Sun Belt Conference home openers over the program's previous 15 seasons.
– Last season, the Jags swept App State to open the conference home slate, the sixth time they have swept a league opponent at home to begin conference play.
– USA has won nine of its last 11 SBC home openers and home-opening series.

THE SERIES VS. TEXAS STATE    
– South Alabama and Texas State have met 21 previous times in the all-time series with the Bobcats holding a 16-5 series advantage.
– Last spring, the Jaguars swept the regular-season meeting between the two clubs in San Marcos, taking the three-game set: 3-1, 1-0 and 7-4, and then defeated the Bobcats in the semifinals, 4-3 in eight innings.
– With the four wins, South took a series versus the Bobcats for the first time and doubled its series win tally after recording just two total wins in the prior 17 games.
– The Jaguars won the first meeting between the two clubs, defeating the Bobcats 8-0 in San Marcos, but the Bobcats won the next 13 meetings until South's 3-1 win in game two of the series in 2019.

INSIDE THE SERIES VS. THE BOBCATS    
Series: 6-15 (H: 1-6 / A: 4-8 / N: 1-1)
Sun Belt Conference Games: 5-13 (H: 1-5 / A: 4-8 / N: 0-0)
Sun Belt Tournament Games: 1-1 (H: 0-1 / A: 0-0 / N: 1-0)
Extra-Inning Games: 1-1 (H: 0-0 / A: 0-1 / N: 1-0)
Run-Rule Games: 0-1 (H: 0-1 / A: 0-0 / N: 0-0)
NCAA Tournament Games: 0-0 (H: 0-0 / A: 0-0 / N: 0-0)
First Meeting: 4/5/14
Last Meeting: 5/15/21
Longest South Alabama Streak: 4 ('21)
Longest Texas State Streak: 13 ('14-'19)
Current Streak: 4 by South Alabama
Last 5 – 4-1
Last 10 – 5-5

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